Koochiching Museums

Today, for our collections highlight, the spotlight falls on our 1905 Keystone View Company stereoscope! The Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 in Meadville, Pennsylvania by B.L. Singley. Keystone produced and distributed both educational and comic/sentimental stereoviews, and stereoscopes until 1963. By 1905, they were the largest stereographic company in the world. Stereoscopes were the precursor to view finders. They use two of the same images to create a 3-D effec

Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Center – some of you may know what it is or where it is, some of you have visited but I strongly suspect most have not. And I’m pretty sure that Jeremiah Johnston didn’t ever contemplate about its future history, nor had vision of his part in it because he was born November 20th, 1860 at St. Peter’s (on the Red River in Manitoba). Jeremiah’s father was a Sadler of English descent who died when Jeremiah was two years old, his mother was a half breed from

Violet mulls and cogitates about the adventures she had and personal family events. She particularly enjoyed looking back at family gatherings. One she enjoyed was when the boys would come in from duck and goose hunting from the “Big Marsh” and she would stuff those ducks with a sweet dressing, put them in the big-pot-bellied iron kettle and roast them in a large oven that Orrah had bought for her so many years before. Orrah and the kids told her that they were cooked to a